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The illegal wildlife trade is literally a multibillion-dollar industry!

The same type of trafficking that's almost made tigers extinct is now threatening great apes!

Chimps, orangoutangs, gorillas and bonobos are all being plucked from their natural habitats and bought by private collectors or disreputable zoos.

The numbers are cray cray!

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No so fast evildoer!!!!

Good news in Bangkok as Thai officials have caught a rhino horn smuggler at the Bangkok Airport.

The smuggler had over

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Dr. Jane Goodall, a legendary conservationist who works with MANY species, is afraid of what might happen to the African elephant.

According to her, the elephant is facing extinction.

Dr. Goodall wants the world to help stop the ivory trade, as poachers are quickly eradicating the African elephant.

She states:

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This better be a new superhero movie franchise because we want MORE!!!!!!

As reported earlier, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Tobey Maguire are in talks to star in an anti-poaching flick.

But word on the street has the actors shooting for TWO anti-hunting movies!

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Leonardo DiCaprio is always on Team Wildlife and his stance against poaching is stronger than ever!

The actor took time to write on Facebook about the dangers of poaching.

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Zoo keepers at Burgers' Zoo in The Netherlands were surprised when a baby rhino decided to enter the world earlier than expected.

The baby rhino may be a preemie but he's stable and healthy!

Even though he was born 6 weeks early and no zoo keepers were around to see it!

His 12-year-old mother is healthy too!

They are white rhinos and they are listed as Near Threatened which means that as a species in the wild, they're not doing too well. Mainly because of poaching.

That's so sad because they're so CUTE!

Check out the video (above) to see the little guy walking around just being adorbz.

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Talk about a three man tag team for the ages!!!

Warner Bros. has announced that Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hardy, and Tobey Maguire will be teaming up for something extra special….

An superhero anti-poaching flick!!!

Sources say that the idea came from Hardy, who has friends who went from Special Operatives agents to animal activists.

We wouldn't want to to mess with them!!!!

While the film is nowhere near a fully fledged flick, the new movie will take ideas from Traffic, a multi-story but still connected plot.

Can you guys do a superhero movie next??? With LOTS of tights??? LOLz!

[Image via WENN.]

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